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Vandenberg Launch Facility 9

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Vandenberg Space Force Base Launch Facility 09 (LF-09) is a US Air Force Intercontinental ballistic missile launch facility on Vandenberg SFB, California, USA. It is a launch site for the land-based Minuteman missile series.

Short nameLF-09
OperatorUS Air Force
Launch pad1
StatusActive
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Launch Facility 09
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Short nameLF-09
OperatorUS Air Force
Launch pad1
Launch history
StatusActive
Launches109
First launch29 June 1964
Minuteman-IB
Last launch19 February 2025
Minuteman-III
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rockets
Minuteman
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The site was a test and training made operational on January 15, 1964 and in use until at least 1996. It operated with Minuteman I and Minuteman III missiles.[1]

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